When I am incredibly busy and stressed, I like to compound it all by beginning extensive projects other than that which I am supposed to be working on. I award myself extra points if they are unnecessary, irrelevant, and totally unimportant to anyone but me. In this case, it was watching ALL of the raw […]

Paul and I are on vacation this week… We’re celebrating nine years of being married. Nine years of being amazed at how lucky I got. Nine years of wondering if he listens to a word I say. Nine years of Paul failing to appreciate my talent for micromanagement. Nine years of me having 1,237,894% more […]

When I was little, we didn’t have a TV. But sometimes, at my grandparents on Saturday nights, I was allowed to watch PBS. Which is where I saw The King and I and Kiss Me Kate. Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter… And I fully expected that when I grew up, Howard Keel […]